Subject: Re: Help wanted: 4.0 release notes
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 05/07/2007 21:55:51
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Martin Husemann wrote:
> I could only think of very few (and not very user visible) changes. There
> have been a few nasty kernel bugs fixed, and some libc improvements (like
> __clone() now working for real). What else?

Looking at src/doc/CHANGES on the netbsd-4 branch:

  * Switched to GCC 4
  * ofctl(8) was added to display the OpenPROM or OpenFirmware device tree
  * Added floppy support, via OpenBSD
  * sip(4) support for SiS 900-based Ethernet devices

... plus many MI changes, of course.


  - Hubert